Summer Goals

Since I have summer fever incredibly bad I have decided to make a list of my summer goals and hopefully have them checked off my list by August! Feel free to keep reminding me to get off my couch and start being productive!!

1 - Work out and get in better shape. I work out a lot already but I need to take more classes and just get into better bathing suit shape. And I just need shed 5 pounds... oh I am dreading trying on my bathing suits from my skinny honeymoon days:(

2 - Tan! This should be easy, I have a pool! Who wants to join?! And I am not talking kinda tan, I am talking DARK DARK DARK... like it would take months in the fall for me to fade!

3 - Scrapbook. My poor scrapbook hasn't had a new page in months. I only did ONE page for my wedding so far! How sad!!

4 - Make an upholstered headboard for my guest bedroom. I know Staci, Kim, and Allison want to join the fun. Any other takers?!

5 - Finish our bathroom... like crown molding, accessories, lighting, window treatments, everything...

6 - Come up with fun math games/lessons (I said this last year and I just kept putting it off bc I didn't want to think about math, so hopefully times have changed!)

7 - Read, read, read. Should be easy enough for me. I got 3 books from the library just yesterday.

8 - Blog more on www.emsdeals.blogspot.com It is actually a lot of fun for me!

9 - Go on some weekend trips with Jeremy. I hope we can drive though! I hate flying even though we can for free!

10 - Cook healthy dinners for us!! Or just cooking in general :)

What are your summer goals?!

Exciting News!

Okay I am starting another blog, so yes I will have two. But they are about completely different things and I cannot wait to get started. It is www.emsdeals.blogspot.com Go be-friend me :)

I'm Back!

Okay I am vowing to actually blog on a regular basis, as in more than once a month. Lots has been going on lately! Kendra and Josh got married and it was a beauitful wedding! The rehearsal dinner was GREAT... although since I got there early and set up a few things the guy that worked there thought I was in charge and kept coming up to me telling me things that were going to happen. I just smiled and nodded and then told Kendra and chuckled about it. I should be a wedding person, I LOVE them and like taking charge. I know me?! Never! But yes, I do enjoy it. We had a load of fun dancing at the reception! I even cut my toe from my shoes because I danced so much! Can't wait to see the crazy pictures from the photographer. Here are a few quick pictures of the wedding. I have not been good about taking pictures, I just steal everyone elses once they put them on facebook (aka my other addiction).



Work is going great, only 6 more Mondays! WOWZA! But I only have two weeks until TAKS. As Alicia would say, TAKS is upon us... and row your own boat kids! haha.. if you knew her you would die laughing. I am getting stressed over TAKS, but I can only do so much and then it is up to them, so I am doing what I can. I found out today that I might be teaching an 8th grade on-level math course next year, which might stress me out. I teach one 8th Enrichment, but on-level is a bit different and it would be more stress to teach that with all my 7th pre-AP. But I will just do whatever they give me and be thankful I have a job!

Easter was a lot of fun, it helps that I like a lot of food and my parents and Jeremy's parents made the same meal. Thankfully I love mashed potatoes and ham! And CANDY.. good gosh I hope I don't gain 20 pounds! We won on our Easter egg hunt, like I said before. We had to be back to back and had to hook arms. My arms were so far behind my body it was killing me shoulders! I mean I thought I was about to pull a freaking muscle. Jeremy was like just lay on my back and I will run around with you! I was like are you kidding me!? I can't rid on your back BACKWARDS... I have bones, friend! But no one went into the living room but us so we got all of our eggs from there. Good times, good times. My mom said this was our last egg hunt because the babies will do it next year. Well screw that! I don't have a baby, I am fair game and those little crap machines are going DOWN!



Onto what has taken over our life, our bathroom remodel! So, Weston helped us demo it at the end of March and we are reallllly getting somewhere! It is not done at all, but getting so close! Victor and Jeremy are working on the shower floor as we speak and I LOVE LOVE LOVE it! The floor is all complete and looking beautiful. The wall tile is getting there as well, just needing to do the top part where the shower head is and the boarder. Once the floor is done we can put the tile right above it.. then do the bathtub tile. So, obviously there is a lot, but there has been SOO much done! Here are some pictures of how it is coming along so far. What wall color do you think?! We are going to paint the trim a light cream to go with the flooring. I need to find mirrors which has been such a fiasco! Please tell me where to go! I swear I have been everywhere! I don't want to spend much on them because well, I don't! haha.. we also need to get a new lighting fixture that will hang a bit (Allison told me I need to do that as well.. I didn't know I did, but apparently I do). So much to do! I hope to be done sometime this summer! haha.. and I have to do new window treatmeants. Why are we not millionaires?!








Okay here are mirrors from Horchow that I LOVE LOVE LOVE... and I want something like this! And I love this ceiling medallion! If only Jeremy was up to rewiring a lighting fixture, I would use it! (why they are so small... I don't know! I will try to fix it later!)

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I have been a blog slacker... sorry!! Life has taken over for the time being, but I think I will try to blog today after work.. or this week sometime! Our bathroom is coming right along and hopefully we can actually use it by next week! That would be amazing :) Easter was great, Jeremy and I won our Easter Egg Hunt.. as usual. I am the champion every year, be jealous. Anywhom, the bell is about to ring and my conference period is almost over. Although, I did get my grades in the gradebook! Accomplishment indeed! Okay, I will write an actual grandular post with pictures later. Ta-ta!

Lots to talk about!!

Okay I have about an hour to spare!! I am on spring break but I have been so busy it has been unreal! Good news!! Baby Isabella is here!!! She was born on March 10 and was in the NICU for about a week and she was able to come home two days ago. She is so adorable and has a FULL head of hair! It looks like she has a wig on! It is hilarious! She is only about 6 pounds right now, so it is so different from John. He is so big already, almost 15 pounds, crazy! Here are a few pictures of Bella and John. I helped my mom babysit him today after we left Allison's house. He is sick, so we don't want him around Bella. Poor thing is snorting and coughing a lot and then I fed him and kid you not 3 minutes later he was throwing up all over the place! Poor baby! I promise you I just flipped him on his stomach and let him throw up all over the floor! It makes me laugh now because my mom was like OH MY GOSH! hahaha... He smiled afterwards, his tummy must have felt a LOT better!




So... we bought all of the tile for our master bathroom remodel. We bought more than we had planned, but we are really excited about everything! We got 20 inch tile that is beautiful porcelian, we will put it together with VERY little grout lines to make it look like a full sheet of stone on the floor. We are completely gutting the shower and putting a half wall so that we dont have a door for the shower. So we have all 1 inch tile for the shower pan, front of the bath tub, a break in the shower tile, and then the window seal. Hard to explain, but it is going to look AMAZING! We also bought a gorgeous medallion for a ridiculous price for the center of the floor. Here is what that looks like and you can get idea of the coloring of the bathroom. =) Now, I did start tearing off the hideous crap on the walls and the lazy guy who did it did it over even more hideous wallpaper. Oh joy! We are going to be buying the new fixtures soon too... oh I hope we don't go overboard, but I hate our bathroom, so I am so ready to get going!!!


Anyone need any lighting fixtures?! Go to Park Row Lighting! I was told by a lady at the gym that the Southlake one is going out of business and everything was an additional 75% off... well I headed up there this week and got a game room light for $80!!! Yes, EIGHTY! They had so much amazing pieces for ridiculously amazing prices! They had things for 50 bucks... some light for 15! I wish this had been going on when we bought all of our lighting fixtures from Lowes.. we spent so much money! Well, there are two other centers and I was told that they decided this past weekend that they are going to close those too! Everything is going to be on sale! You better head out there. Not kidding, we might go to the Arlington one to look for fans for the guest rooms. Oh can't wait!! So here is the lighting fixture that we bought... it isn't up yet, I just got it yesterday.

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I am going to update soon... I really am!

Green Thumb

What a week! It was a long one and even my Saturday was really tiring! Allison is in the hospital, since last Wednesday night. She has preeclampsia and is now on strict bed rest until Isabella arrives; which could be as early as Tuesday! Jeremy and I are pumped about having another baby around! It gets our baby fix in since we have decided to wait a few more years. Anywhom, that is a big part of the week. We try to get up there as much as possible, but hopefully this time next week everyone will be home and comfy!

Jeremy and I got to babysit John on Sunday and we had such a great time! He is such an easy baby, didn't cry at all. Well he was in a smiley/laughy mood, which was a lot of fun. Jeremy's parents came over along with my dad to play with John. Such a popular kid already! He is getting SO big it is ridiculous!! Have a looks-y!

Work has been going great, although TAKS has started. Ahhh stressful, not much longer until the math TAKS, which freaks me out! So I guess we will see if I have a job next year in May when we get the scores back. One more week until spring break... woohooo!! Not that I don't love my job, but a week off would be rather wonderful! I can't believe how fast school has been going, only 11 more weeks. That is crazy to me!!

We are still wanting to do the bathroom, we are going to buy the tile soon, but I think we might wait until there is not as much going on to start. Our original plan was to have already started, but with all the baby stuff, that just didn't happen. It will get done, I swear it! I am so excited about it, I just wish it wasn't as big of a project than it is, but oh well. The deals we are getting are amazing and too good to pass up. But we did do some gardening this weekend, as to why I am so completely exhausted. I woke up at 7:15 and did my regular Saturday 2 hour workout that kills, but if I had known how much we were doing, I might have cut that down quite a bit! My dad came over and we first went to the stone yard and got stones to line our flower-beds in the front of the house. It was really easy, but just lots of labor! These stones are not 2 pounds, my friends!! And they are not lovely on your hands, they are all sorts of scrapped up. So after two trips to the stone yard we headed to Lowe's and got a few vegetables to plant, although we have to wait a little longer for the tomatoes and such because it is supposed to get cold again next week. We finished the front yard and by this time Jeremy's parents had come to help too, thankfully because two more sets of hands made things in the front yard zoom by. We go to the back yard and then randomly decided to pull up all of this flagstone that was by the pool and trim out these trees and take out all of these other rocks. I know it is necessary and it will look so much better, but do you know how heavy flagstone is?!? I using the shovel to try to uproot it because it had been there forever and I was just sweating like crazy! Those big ones are like 30 pounds and we had a ton of them! We didn't finish everything, there was no way, we worked on it for about 4 or 5 hours and then decided to call it a day. Jeremy and I have to wake up pretty early tomorrow to go to Lowes and get mulch and stuff to put down in the place of the flagstone and we have to do it before it storms. Should be a lovely and relaxing Sunday... wait... once we finish I will take some pictures of that, but I do have one or two of the front. We also have some iron work to hang on the front, but we didn't get to that either.

Oooo I can't wait to have green grass again! It will look about 1,000 times better!! Alright, I am off to watch Oprah on DVR... aren't I so exciting?!